Hinge for vehicle-bodies



Patented May 17, 1921.

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H TEISSEIRE HINGE FOR VEHICLE BODIES.

APPLICATION FILED OCT. 23, 1917 O I 1 I 4 .v FA 1 I m u I 0 1 mi 0 I I Iw H. TEISSEIRE. HINGE FOR VEHICLE BODIES.

APPLICATION FILED OCT.Z3| I9I7.

Patented May 17, 1921.

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V HENRI rnrssr ntn, or 'IPARIS FRAfiCEa HINGE FOR EHICLE-Booms.

T 0 all whom it may concern: 7

Be it known that I, HENRI TEIssEIRn, a citizen of the Republic ofFrance, residing in Paris, France, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Hinges for Vehicle-Bodies, of which the following 1s aspecification.

This invention has for its object an improved hinge for use on vehicles(particularly automobiles) which are convertible 1n a manner to beeither open or closed, and in which the window frames in the top areindependent of the carriage doors.

The improved hinge is attached to the upper part of the fixed portion ortonneau of the carriage and its axis or spindle 1s adapted to receive aconnecting part of the removable top of the carriage in line with theextension of the pivot axis.

One form of the improved hinge 1s shown in the accompanying drawing, inwhich Figure 1 is an elevation, partly in sect on, of the hinge. 1 0

Fig. 2 is a horizontal section on the line X X in Fig. 1.

F i 3 is a side elevation of a vehiclebody, ShOWlIlg the application ofthe inventlon to the doors thereof.

In the illustrated embodiment of the invention, the hingescomprise-tubular or pivotal portions or eyes, and leaves or fasteningplates united thereto respectively. The inner pivotal member is atubular spindle, being a hollow sleeve, its bore forming a socket t toreceive the outwardly prolonged pintle a, on which is pivoted the windowframe in the removable top.

In the construction shown, the tubular spindle or sleeve b is attachedto the middle plate h, which connects the hinge with the body. or door;and the tubular portions m :0 are integral with plates 0, d,respectively. The tubular sleeve 1) is reduced at its end portions b 12to'form journals which enter within the tubular portions 00 m formingthus a hollow pintle for the hinge.

In Fig. 1 the upper pintle z is shown as slightly raised out of itssocket; but when 1n use it is pushed down within the socket 23 until itsstop shoulder a. abuts against the top of the hinge. with the axis onwhich the hinge members turn.

It will be noted that the hinges are em bedded in the thickness of thecasing'of the carriage body, this special arrangement bearticulations.

The socket t is coaxial V PATENT OFFICE 7 v Specification of LettersPatent, c. Pate t d Ma 17 1921" I Application filed October 23, 1917.Serial No. 198,167.

ing employed for the purpose of obviating the placing of the pintle i ina plane outanalogous position, which would cause gaps allowlng air toThe hinge being thus constructed, the plvotal axls of the'window frameis exactly in the BXt6I1S10I1 of the axis of the door hinge; it sufficesto mount the window frame above the door by any suitable means, such asfor instance by means of a catch or a screw rod, in order that the doorand the w1ndow frame' can open and close together by turningproperlyaround the same axis and remaining consequently in the same verticalplane.

It is quite evident that the invention need not be llmited to the abovedescribed construction, and that any suitable modification can beadopted in each particular case. c For example, in order to effect thejuncture of the two spindles, either one may be bored out to receive theother, it being within the invention to invert the construction with thesame result as in the described construction.

Having thus described myjinvention and pass, or the use of special thebest means 'I know for carrying the same 7 into practical efiect, what Iclalm 1s 1. A hinge for the door of a vehicle body having a removabletop, comprising hinge eyes and lateral attaching plates, the hinge eyesformed as tubular sleeves, the inner one forming a coaxial socketadapted to receive the pintle of a hinge for a window of such detachabletop.

2. A hinge comprising lateral attaching plates and tubular pivotalsleeves on such plates respectively, the inner pivotal member beingtubular to form a coaxial socket for receiving a detachable pintle.

3. The combination with a vehicle body having a removabletop, the bodyhaving a door and the top a hinged window sash above thedoor, of a hingecomprising tubular pivotal portions, the inner one forming a tubularspindle, and a prolonged pintle entering the hollow .of such tubularspindle.

4. A door. hinge for a vehicle body having a removable top, comprlsingtubular pivotal sleeves, one within the other, the inner one forming asocket adapted to receive the pintle of the hinge of a window sash inthe removable top.

' 5. A hinge comprising an inner tubular my name in the presence oftwosubs'cribing sleeve having a middle attaching plate, the wltnesses.

end portions of the sleeve beyondzsuch late being reduced to formjournals, and outer e V 5 sleeves turning on such journals and having-Witnesses-:' attaching plates. CHAS. P. PREssLY,

.Inwitness Whereofl have' hereuntosigned HENRI CARTIER. 1

7 "HENRI TEIssEIRE.

